Belarus intends to launch its own artificial Earth satellite in the fourth quarter of 2009. This was announced by the Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences, Mikhail Myasnikovich, during a government discussion of the space program, which also provides for the creation of a center for receiving and processing information.

Moscow authorities are developing new urban lighting standards Despite the obvious workload of the city committee for architecture and urban planning with construction projects themselves, the head of the Moscow Committee for Architecture and Architecture, Alexander Kuzmin, is not averse to developing regulations for the lighting design of city-wide space, and most importantly, monitoring compliance with new style solutions. At least, judging by Mr.

The main event of recent days is the “execution” of Maxim Sushinsky, the leader of St. Petersburg SKA. In one of the interviews, he revealed the problems of the team, although he did it in very harsh terms. Surprisingly, the reaction did not occur immediately, but several days later. And she was quite tough. Maxim Sushinsky, after the victory over Sibir a week ago, told the press that everything at the club has not been as it seems from the outside for a long time.

The leader of A Just Russia wants to legalize public censorship of television On Monday, the Chairman of the Federation Council, leader of the A Just Russia party, at a meeting with teachers and students of the A.M. Literary Institute. Gorky shared the news: his bill on a public council on television has been submitted to the government. Moreover, Mr. Mironov said that he hopes for a positive conclusion from the Cabinet of Ministers.

European champions 2008, winners of the Grand Prix final in ice dancing, Russians Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, arrived in Moscow not long ago. Starting from this season, Alexey Gorshkov’s students began training under the guidance of new coaches Natalya Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov, for which they moved to Delaware, America, in the summer. Vremya Novostey correspondent Olga ERMOLINA spoke with Oksana and Maxim at the Odintsov Ice Sports Palace near Moscow.

At the UN, leaders talk about painful issues Yesterday, a general political discussion began at the UN headquarters in New York as part of the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly . Representatives of various states had the opportunity to make public their views on the modern world. The American leader made a farewell speech - there are presidential elections in the United States in November, and in January George Bush will have to leave the White House.

Kinoshok handed out prizes According to tradition, Kinoshok, led by screenwriter Viktor Merezhko and actress Irina Shevchuk, is carried out in Soviet aesthetics.

Georgia yesterday said it had “returned the favor” to Russia for its unmanned spy plane, which Tbilisi claims was shot down by Russian aircraft over Abkhazia in April. The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs demonstrated a similar device that fell the day before in the Gori region adjacent to South Ossetia, allegedly sent by the Russian side to photograph the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline.

Another hypothesis has been put forward about the purpose of Stonehenge Archaeologists have proposed a new explanation for the Stonehenge mystery. According to professors Tim Darvill and Geoffrey Wainwright from Bournemouth University, the ancient building could have been used for medical purposes. In this case, the ancient inhabitants of Britain came to Stonehenge in the hope of getting rid of their torment.

Nigmatullin, who resumed his career, played for the first time in Moscow Former goalkeeper of the Russian national team, three-time national champion and two-time national Cup winner Ruslan Nigmatullin yesterday truly returned to big-time football after a more than two-year break in his professional career. On Tuesday, Nigmatullin, who currently defends the colors of the first division club SKA (Rostov-on-Don), played his first match against the Premier League team - Dynamo Moscow.

VEB restored the solvency of Svyaz-Bank The buyer of Svyaz-Bank will be the state corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank). It is expected that with its help, Svyaz-Bank, which has suffered greatly due to the current financial crisis, will be able to fully repay its debts.

The main gallery of the world art market with a business visit to Moscow It seems that to the question “Penetration?” posed in the title of the first, targeted exhibition of Lari Gagosian’s gallery last year in Barvikha, Lari most likely gives an affirmative answer. However, this is a response typical of diplomats and big businessmen, in which there is room for intrigue, retreat, and different interpretations.

The military will not allow Russia and the United States to completely quarrel The protracted crisis in Russian-American relations seems to be less and less satisfying to the Pentagon, the agency to which Russia is accustomed to attributing the most aggressive intentions. While US political leaders in the person of President George W.

Materials of the working group of the World Congress of Russian-Speaking Jewry will be transferred to the UN Among the issues discussed at the presidium of the World Congress of Russian-Speaking Jewry, held recently in Tel Aviv, the main one was the discussion of the report of the WKRE working group that visited South Ossetia.

Russia sends its ships to fight maritime banditry Russian authorities have decided to send their warships to the coast of Somalia to counter sea pirates, who almost every day seize new ships off the African coast. This was announced yesterday by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky.